Temperance Tarot Card Meaning
Major Arcana
Upright Keywords
Maybe. Balanced, Harmonious, Moderate, Integrative, Patient
Reversed Keywords
Maybe. Imbalanced, Excessive, Impatient, Conflicted, Extreme
Key Associations
Upright Meaning
Numbered fourteen in the Major Arcana, this card invites the sacred art of moderation rather than punitive denial.
That balanced insight is the Temperance upright meaning – practice patient blending and find the "and" between extremes.
If you'd like to explore practical steps, try a three‑card spread to map where moderation matters most.
Love & Relationships
Romance finds its perfect temperature with Temperance in your love reading!
This angelic energy shows how excitement and security can coexist when differences are skillfully integrated rather than forced into harmony.
This angelic energy shows how excitement and security can coexist when differences are skillfully integrated rather than forced into harmony.
Career & Finances
Work‑life integration beats compartmentalization when Temperance visits your career spread.
Success now comes from patient blending of skills and steady, moderate action rather than dramatic gambles.
Success now comes from patient blending of skills and steady, moderate action rather than dramatic gambles.
Health & Spirituality
Your body is a sacred ecosystem – Temperance in health readings asks for gentle rebalancing rather than extremes.
Integrative practices and consistent moderation will yield sustainable wellbeing over time.
Integrative practices and consistent moderation will yield sustainable wellbeing over time.
Reversed Meaning
This reversal asks you to pause, breathe, and restore consistent, moderate rhythms rather than escalate more.
Love & Relationships
When Temperance reverses in love readings, the relationship pendulum swings between too much and too little.
Developing your own emotional regulation is the first step toward sustainable connection.
Developing your own emotional regulation is the first step toward sustainable connection.
Career & Finances
Temperance reversed in career readings exposes boom‑bust cycles of frantic productivity and burnout.
Slow, steady, moderate effort often produces more durable professional momentum than bursts of intensity.
Slow, steady, moderate effort often produces more durable professional momentum than bursts of intensity.
Health & Spirituality
Temperance reversed in health readings shows extreme corrections and compensations – crash diets, overtraining, or cycles of deprivation and excess.
Choose patient, consistent support that lets natural balance return.
Choose patient, consistent support that lets natural balance return.
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